Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
As someone who downloads HD movies all the time, you wouldn't need more than 15gb.
And what channel was it shown in Germany? They don't have the same encryption that we have.
I'd rather stick with my SD-DVD's than watch something with PAL speed-up. Luckily, the HD formats do away with it.
Originally posted by: Dunedain
It was posted on the site with the screencaps that the Cinemax broadcast might be in 1080, if that's the case and they use good bit-rates, then I figured it might go past 15 gig, in which case you either have to use a dual-layer HD-DVD disk or a single-layer Blu-Ray disk to have it on a disk you can play in a HD player. And full quality in this context obviously means the full quality that they broadcast the Star Wars movies at in HD on Cinemax, whatever that level of quality turns out to be. It depends on the res they use and the bit-rate, that won't be known for sure until they actually broadcast it, I guess. Anyhow, that fan on the other site seemingly had no problem recording the German broadcast of the HD version of A New Hope off his t.v., so apparently that wasn't encrypted. Hopefully it can be done here, too, in one way or another.
It was posted on the site with the screencaps that the Cinemax broadcast might be in 1080, if that's the case and they use good bit-rates, then I figured it might go past 15 gig, in which case you either have to use a dual-layer HD-DVD disk or a single-layer Blu-Ray disk to have it on a disk you can play in a HD player. And full quality in this context obviously means the full quality that they broadcast the Star Wars movies at in HD on Cinemax, whatever that level of quality turns out to be. It depends on the res they use and the bit-rate, that won't be known for sure until they actually broadcast it, I guess. Anyhow, that fan on the other site seemingly had no problem recording the German broadcast of the HD version of A New Hope off his t.v., so apparently that wasn't encrypted. Hopefully it can be done here, too, in one way or another.
As someone who downloads HD movies all the time, you wouldn't need more than 15gb.
And what channel was it shown in Germany? They don't have the same encryption that we have.
I'd rather stick with my SD-DVD's than watch something with PAL speed-up. Luckily, the HD formats do away with it.
Well, I can't watch any film material at 60Hz the judder drives me nuts far more than the PAL speedup.
For any NTSC HD material it's best to IVTC on the fly it and watch it at 71.928Hz synched, that way you get no speedup and no annoying judder, best of both worlds.
I don't know that the HD formats do away with PAL speedup or NTSC judder, the first HD-DVD players all are locked at 60Hz for North America which makes them j-u-d-d-e-r city, I haven't seen the specs on the European models yet to see if they are also 60Hz or 50Hz, but I don know some european HDTV sets are 50Hz as are the HD broadcasts...
It would have been a perfect opportunity to do away with both NTSC and PAL and move to 1080P at 72Hz worldwide, but of course they didn't. *sigh*